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Directionull

Chill Annoying, Clowns

The ’90s weren’t that great – by Cartoons Hate Her.

Wow, this is powerful stupid. Just fucking idiotic.

She completely and totally misunderstands and barely acknowledges what people miss about the 90s and why it was not exactly a completely better time, but a very different time with an extremely dissimilar feel as compared to now.

This article is ragingly fucking full of shit, I’ll state again for the record. Just clownish in all the worst ways by someone who was just a bit too young to get the full 90s experience. This profoundly clueless article could’ve actually been good but she was simply not smart enough nor perceptive enough to write it.

When someone pens something like this that misses the entire point of the discussion, it causes one to wonder why did they bother? Why produce obviously shoddy pap? Is fighting against straw men really that much fun?

Anyway, the reason people miss the 1990s is that it was an incredibly optimistic time. They miss that feeling. The Berlin Wall had fallen; Communism had been defeated and the pall of nuclear war no longer hung over all of us. We thought we could fix the world and that we all were on the verge of a better future, unburdened by history and all its hatreds.

This feeling, this spirit, was everywhere then. Yes, even among adults (it’s not just childhood nostalgia). Everyone, nearly, believed it, felt it, wanted it to be true and wanted to make it come true.

That’s why people look back so fondly on the 90s and miss that time so much. They miss it as much as that article misses the point.

DC Bye

Chill Amusing, Annoying

Updated a VM from server 2016 to 2022, but an error occurred mid upgrade. Its trying to boot to the roll-back but is stuck in a loop.

Bold move, attempting an in-place upgrade on a domain controller that was also serving DHCP. Crazy.

YOLO, I guess.

Time to seize roles on another DC and call it a day on this one. Either recreate DHCP or attempt to grab the DHCP database offline and copy it over somewhere functional. I’ve had to do this before in cleaning up someone else’s screw-up.

This is the kinda crap I used to have to deal with routinely.

Data Dent

Chill Annoying, Evil

My Windows Computer Just Doesn’t Feel Like Mine Anymore.

Windows is now a user-hostile ad-optimized data-thievin’ despicable disaster. The first time I saw an ad for fucking Candy Crush in Windows I vowed to never use it for my main OS again.

Watching Microsoft shills (some of whom are not even being paid — now that’s sad!) try to sell us on this like a two-bit carnival barker has been quite the amusing experience. But if you tell people some harmful change is made for “security,” they’ll believe just about any outlandish thing.

Time and Work

Chill Annoying

This is in counterpoint to a Jessica Valenti piece that I am no longer able to find, but it was about how men are terrible because we don’t do “enough” housework. Though I’ve never had and will never have children, I’ve been in battles over household chores. And often for men, women do not count these things as household chores (even though they in most relationships rarely or never do them), though they are very time- and labor-intensive:

  • Any yardwork tasks such as mowing, trimming, leaf raking and the like (these can be very labor-intensive and time-consuming in spring and summer)
  • Any appliance maintenance
  • Any car maintenance
  • Any house maintenance
  • Roof and gutter cleaning
  • Anything at all outdoors, no matter how difficult or even dangerous

I was told by my girlfriends in two relationships that all these “didn’t count” and weren’t “real chores” because “men enjoyed these things.” It must be some kind of woman script, because yes, they used almost exactly the same words.

My friends, most men do fucking not in fact enjoy doing these tasks and they require a whole lot of time and work to complete.

Also, many women have much higher (unnecessarily high) cleanliness standards. For instance, an ex of mine was upset if the carpet wasn’t vacuumed at least three times a week. And that’s just too much. Yet if I refused to do that in the Valenti accounting, I’d be “not doing my part.”

Fuck all that noise.

Happen To

Chill Annoying

AITBF for not liking when women change their persona when they find out I’m gay?

This is interesting because something I think most women don’t realize is that straight men experience most women as extremely cold and hostile. It really colors one’s view of women. If I didn’t have a good number of close women friends, in general I’d think women are quite terrible — because that’s the treatment most straight men get most of the time. To us, 99.9% of women are experienced as glacial, distant, and mildly bellicose. (And then women go on and wonder why men do not have women friends. Well, that is why!)

Yes, yes, shut the fuck up, I know why all that it is, but it’s a terrible feeling to be iced out because you happen to be male. And I don’t even think it makes sense most of the time because most women (and most people in general) are incredibly terrible at judging actual risk.

But that’s a whole other topic.

Civ End

Chill Annoying, Clowns

I do understand the Covidians’ anger and sadness over the fact that Covid did not change the world more. Hell, I at least thought it’d lead to federally-mandated sick leave in the US and some other reforms of the medical system as well as requirements for good indoor ventilation. Oddly, none of that happened.

Still, though, that does not justify the absurd Covidian lying about how harmful Covid is post-vax, and for claiming absolutely wacky shit like Long Covid was going to be civilization-ending.

It’s easy to make something into a religion; it’s much, much harder to effect change in the real wold — which is what the Covidians should’ve actually attempted.

No RTO

Chill Annoying, Clowns, Evil

Most people who work at a computer aren't super excited about wasting a lot of time getting to and from the office, and when you force people to go back to that it makes them angry. The consequences of that should be pretty easy to predict and yet…

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— Evan Sutton (@evansutton.bsky.social) January 12, 2025 at 7:55 PM

Work from home has been responsible for probably 50-70% of the recent productivity gains in the US, so of course forcing people to return to the office is a lose-lose proposition. It generally makes life worse and is wildly unproductive for most.

Offices are absolutely terrible environments to get any work done.

Fundud

Chill Annoying, Clowns

Correct. Nearly all of the claims of the conservatards about “useless” science are 100% wrong — both because it’s a fool’s errand predicting what will be useful in advance, and most science these days is only funded if there is some practical use in sight (which is a bad way to do it, to be clear).

In reality, we should fund much, much more “useless” science because it invariably ends up being the most useful of all.